The summer assignment is a means for helping you practice French during the summer break. The idea is to maintain exposure, and use what you know for enjoyable activities that you get to choose yourself. Spend at least 30 minutes per week exploring/working with any of the sites you find on this page.You may also read books and articles that you locate, yourself, or listen to music that you may find.You may count conversations with French speaking friends toward required practice time. (The conversation must be totally in French;-) This is an especially great activity if you are chatting online with a native French speaker, or vacationing in a French speaking area, etc. While you may count a limited amount of time speaking in French with a classmate from Finneytown, this should not count toward more than 30-40 minutes, total, of your summer work, and you should indicate with whom you talked, and for how long, on your log sheets. )
Log: Download as many of these sheets as you need to complete the summer work. Challenge yourself to at least 30 minutes per week. Organize the sheets in a way that is easy for me to understand and see what you did. These sheets are due to me on the first day you return to school and completion will count as a major test grade for the first quarter :
Vary what you use on this site each week. For example, try some games one week, listen to music another week, review some of the grammar and vocabulary activities and games at the bottom of the page during another week, etc. The more variety, the more skills you develop.
Spending a little time everyday listening to French-language Francophone songs, playing games in French, watching French-language Francophone television shows, cartoons, etc. online, or watching part of a French-language Francophone movie on a regular basis will improve your language skills drastically. You will be able to think in French a little better each day. It is up to you to continue to practice. Language learning is a skill that must be developed frequently and over a long period of time.
If you find a link you want to add to this page, send it to me. Indicate the category I should put it in also: sshackelford@finneytown.org
Lots of choices 1.Supersite for all things French:lots to learn here 2.Go Abroad Newsletter: learn about study abroad, working abroad, travel abroad, volunteer abroad
Podibus est un site internet qui a pour vocation de diffuser des contenus culturels nomades. Exemples: Podcasts et guides de châteaux. Good site for AP format with listening and reading-synthesize
Podibus est un site internet qui a pour vocation de diffuser des contenus culturels nomades. Exemples: Podcasts et guides de châteaux. Good site for AP format with listening and reading-synthesize
lafrancebis: exercises, lire en ligne (modern topics)
Conte-moi la francophonie: Ce centre de ressources du patrimoine oral francophone propose des contes collectés dans différents pays, enregistrés en français et en langue locale, accompagnés d'une fiche pédagogique.
Lit Gloss: This site has a connection to original selections of literature in many different languages. Also included is the context of the piece and additional resources to better understand it.
Le Crime-un jeu-Un meurtre a été commis à Trouville. L’inspecteur Roger Duflair mène l’enquête. Il doit retrouver le coupable, son mobile et les circonstances du crime. Vous êtes son assistant. Pour accomplir votre mission, vous devez choisir votre niveau (débutant, élémentaire, intermédiaire ou avancé) et faire toutes les rubriques dans l’ordre.
Technology and Language fun-Try some of these tools and make things in French
Go to Voki.com-register and make a talking Voki avatar. Introduce yourself in French. Talk for one minute in French about the weather, what you are doing, what you are going to do and what you did. Tell me about family and friends, activities, movies, foods you ate, etc. Send me the link to your voki: sshackelford@finneytown.org
Cultural gaffes and faux-pas-list all the cultural gaffes you learned about. Reflect and give your views. What might someone who visited the United States might make a mistake with?
Google Sketch-up-download and create a French house, the Eiffel Tower, etc. in 3D
Interpretive Communication: Print and Audio Texts (combined)
35 questions
Approx. 55 minutes
Interpretive Communication: Audio Texts
Section II: Free Response
Approx. 85 minutes
Interpersonal Writing: E-mail Reply
1 prompt
50%
15 minutes
Presentational Writing: Persuasive Essay
1 prompt
Approx. 55 minutes
Interpersonal Speaking: Conversation
5 prompts
20 seconds for each response
Presentational Speaking: Cultural comparison
1 prompt
2 minutes to respond
French language search engines
French Google
Google offers dozens of country-specific search engines; here are the ones for francophone countries. Note that for multilingual countries, you may need to click "français" under the search box to go to the French interface:
Required Summer work for AP students
The summer assignment is a means for helping you practice French during the summer break. The idea is to maintain exposure, and use what you know for enjoyable activities that you get to choose yourself. Spend at least 30 minutes per week exploring/working with any of the sites you find on this page.You may also read books and articles that you locate, yourself, or listen to music that you may find. You may count conversations with French speaking friends toward required practice time. (The conversation must be totally in French;-) This is an especially great activity if you are chatting online with a native French speaker, or vacationing in a French speaking area, etc. While you may count a limited amount of time speaking in French with a classmate from Finneytown, this should not count toward more than 30-40 minutes, total, of your summer work, and you should indicate with whom you talked, and for how long, on your log sheets. )
Log: Download as many of these sheets as you need to complete the summer work. Challenge yourself to at least 30 minutes per week.
Organize the sheets in a way that is easy for me to understand and see what you did. These sheets are due to me on the first day you return to school and completion will count as a major test grade for the first quarter :
(same document but in word document if you want to type on it:
Vary what you use on this site each week. For example, try some games one week, listen to music another week, review some of the grammar and vocabulary activities and games at the bottom of the page during another week, etc. The more variety, the more skills you develop.
Spending a little time everyday listening to French-language Francophone songs, playing games in French, watching French-language Francophone television shows, cartoons, etc. online, or watching part of a French-language Francophone movie on a regular basis will improve your language skills drastically. You will be able to think in French a little better each day. It is up to you to continue to practice. Language learning is a skill that must be developed frequently and over a long period of time.
If you find a link you want to add to this page, send it to me. Indicate the category I should put it in also: sshackelford@finneytown.org
Dictionary and Grammar References:
APPS Pour le Français - great variety !
Video games
Test your proficiency
Practice Tests at all levels
1.Test de français
2.BBC French test
3.Grammar practice tests
4.Transparent Language
5.New York Regents exam for French
AP Practice Exam questions
1.Practice 1
Lots of choices
1.Supersite for all things French:lots to learn here
2.Go Abroad Newsletter: learn about study abroad, working abroad, travel abroad, volunteer abroad
Listening/Viewing Practice (Les Infos-news)
Les infos (news)-It is important to be aware of global current events. Your exams ask you to read and/or listen to texts and synthesize the information into a writing or a short response with justification. You will also find links to Francophone music, film, etc.
1.RFI infos du jour
2.France-info
3.1 jour 1 actu
4.Info-Jeunes
5.ONU-Radio des Nations Unies
6.Jeune Afrique:les infos
7.TV5 Monde:actualité hebdomadaire-Les 7 jours sur la planète
8.La Banque Mondiale et les défis mondiaux
9.BBC Interactive video theme instruction
Listening/Viewing Practice
1.BrainPOP Learning Videos
2.Watch French TV
3.Glee en français
4.La France Bis-some fun topics to read and listen about.
5.Courts dialogues avec transcription
6.Lyrics Training-listen to music video in French and fill in lyrics
7.Le chocolat, La Tour Eiffel, La mode:les vidéos
8.La cuisine-vidéos pour préparer les plats
9.La cuisine au Sénégal
Listening Practice (La musique, les films, les exposés etc)
1.La France Bis: current topics-exposés and listening exercises
2.Vidéoclips de musique populaire francophone
3.Les chansons-écoutez et essayez les exercises-3 niveaux
4.Lyrics Gap-Fill in the missing word while listening to the French song
5.Revue du film: Les Choristes
6.Stars Parades-Musique en Afrique et aux Antilles
7.Paris-Qu'est-ce qui se passe ce weekend, etc.
8.Listening Practice-daily life
9.MSN video française
Reading Practice (Lire)
1.Les journaux (newspapers in France)
2.Afrique-les infos
3.Expédition humanitaire au Sénégal
4.Manger à Flunch
5.INSEE-les statisques de la vie française, etc.
6.Paris pour les jeunes adultes
7.Les Ados-stories about and teenagers
8.Read international newspapers-Lisez des journaux internationaux
9.Les Petits Citoyens
Grammar Practice (Grammaire)
1.Walk, talk and learn-grammar by walks through Paris-super cool! (scroll down page)
2.Les verbes
3.Les verbes 2
4.Bon Voyage text: series of activities to help practice your French
5.Grammaire et conjugasion
6.French 3, 4, 5 grammar
7.French 3 grammar
8.French Placement test-advanced level
9.Français InteractifStudents explore French language and culture by following the lives of real UT students who have participated in the UT Summer Program in Lyon, France. Online curriculum includes over 320 videos, vocabulary and phonetics audio, online grammar reference with self-correcting exercises and audio dialogues, verb conjugation and practice tools, diagnostic grammar quizzes (testez-vous), a workbook of classroom activities and homework assignments, online polls, and Internet writing activities.
Vocabulary Practice (Vocabulaire)
1.Series of voicethreads made by many with different topics in French.
2.BBC French situations in French
3.Les jeux de vocabulaire-jouez bien
4.French slang-l'argot-great practice
5.Word Reference
Cultural Knowledge (Culture)
1.La Culture:The four levels of cultural awareness: Lisez avec les détails et après il faut que vous preniez l'interrro.
2.Maintenant continez à Ethnocentrism to ethnorelativitism
3.Le Patrimoine Français-French national heritage sites
4.Le Centre des monuments nationaux de France--très impressionant
5.Lots of French cultural links
6.Afrique TV5 Monde
7.CultureBox-Fr3-info culturelle en vidéo
8.Les infos-20 minutes.fr
9.The people-in-france Daily
La Technologie
1.Les apps pour Paris
La Littérature
L'Art
Les Jeux
Les Sports
Les voyages
Technology and Language fun-Try some of these tools and make things in French
AP Test Format
Here is a wiki made by teachers all over the world to help with AP French practice
Check out the format of the test and a practice test
AP_FrenchLangCED_Effective_Fall_2011.pdf
Print Texts
Print and Audio Texts (combined)
Audio Texts
French language search engines
Google offers dozens of country-specific search engines; here are the ones for francophone countries. Note that for multilingual countries, you may need to click "français" under the search box to go to the French interface: